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Opening Times:
Mon - Thur..... 12-3 and....5-11 Fri - Sat.......12-12 Sun.........12-11 |
Food Served:
Tues - Friday....12 - 2 &..6 - 9 Sat.12 - 2.30 &..6 - 9 Sun.12 - 2.30 |
Real Ales:
Current mix = x5 from our own Mill Green Brewery. Plus a guest ale. |
We are proud to announce that we are Suffolk......
CAMRA Pub of the Month!
This means we have been awarded by the folk at CAMRA (Campaign for Real Ale) for our excellent
Real Ale on offer, as well as its quality, and the environment in which it is served.
Some of the great events coming soon to the Fleece
Click on the event name for more info or image to expand...and 'Here' to see full list of events
Click on the event name for more info or image to expand...and 'Here' to see full list of events
Steeleye Span's Peter Knight's 'Gigspanner'
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Hatful of Rain (Fri 5th July)
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In February we welcomed Kris Drever & Eamonn Coyne to our Guild Room.
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Acoustic Folk Night
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This Months Beers
Just up the road in Edwardstone is our very own award winning ec0 brewery 'Mill Green Brewery'. It is located at our sister pub The Edwardstone White Horse, both ourselves and the White horse always have a selection available. We usually have a guest beer available too.
Please note: not all these beers will be available all of the time, usually there is about 4 or 5. Mill Green - Round Maple Mild (AK) 3.3% £2.80 A refreshing pale mild brewed for spring. Sweet and earthy with a dash of maple syrup. We use only British malt and British hops in this beer. Mill Green - White Horse Bitter 3.6% £2.80 Classic copper coloured bitter. English malt and hops, simple and refreshing beer. Mill Green - Dvořák 3.6% £3.00 Very pale Bohemian Pale Ale. We brewed this beer in anticipation of summer. We used the finest Suffolk Organic Barley and fantastic Organic Czech Hops. This beer is unfined and unfiltered. Clean, crisp and refreshing with a hint of freshly cut grass on the nose. Mill Green – Green Goose 4% £3.00 An American style Brown Ale. Sweet but hoppy, brown but refreshing, making this one of our most popular all year round. The brewers favorite beer. Mill Green - Red Barn 4.2% £3.00 A permanent on the bar here. This ruby best bitter is becoming increasingly popular, because of its great balance of hops and malt. We use English and American hops to give this beer a refreshing hoppy tang. Mill Green -Tornado Smith 4.3% £3.00 Fruity pale ale named after legendary son of Boxford. Mill Green were one of first brewerys to use these hops in the UK and this beer has won many awards. Mill Green -Wall Of Death IPA 5.9% £3.80 This is an IPA (stronger and hoppier) version of our popular Tornado Smith beer. Sweet to start with a strong aroma of tropical fruit leading to a bitter, dry finish. Seriously delicious beer. |
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Fish & Chips & a pint of Mill Green Brewery Ale £7
6 - 9pm on Thursdays (£7.50 for Guest Ales & Lager) Seniors Luncheon
Selected meals just £7 12 - 2pm Tuesday - Friday Our Medieval function room is open!
The Fleece's 'Guild Room' is open! Perfect for eating, large groups, parties, live music and wedding receptions.... We are located at the centre of Boxford, an extremely attractive ancient wool village. Why not call for a viewing. 01787 211183 |
Archive:
Tornado Smith Scoops Top Award
October 2011
Wednesday 5 October 2011 - Suffolk Free Press
A BREWERY has won a regional award for a beer named after a local hero.
Mill Green Brewery in Edwardstone was presented with a silver award for Best Bitter in the Eastern region in a competition held by SIBA, the Society of Independant Brewers.
The beer is named after George “Tornado” Smith, who entertained crowds in the 1930s by performing the gravity-defying wall of death stunt in Boxford – firstly with his wife “Dynamite” Doris Craven and latterly a 12-stone lioness called Briton, who rode in the sidecar.
Brewer Tom Norton said: “It was great to get the award as it is judged by fellow brewers, publicans, experts and beer writers.
“We started brewing the beer in July, so it has not been running long."
“It has an interesting flavour as we use our own malt from down the road in Chelsworth but the hops are from New Zealand – they have a similar flavour to a New Zealand white wine so it is very fruity."
“And Tornado Smith was a bit of a local legend.”
The awards took place at Elgoods Brewery in Wisbech, where 185 beers in 12 categories were scrutinised by 55 judges.
Mr Norton said: “Unfortunately I couldn’t attend as I was too busy brewing beer.”
Pub To Be Restored To Former Glory Winter 2011
Earlier this year the Fleece in Boxford was closed and put on the market by pub company ‘Punch’. In May local business man John Norton bought the pub with the aim of reopening it as a village pub at the heart of the community.
The Fleece was once famous for its regular Jazz, hosting the likes of Jaime Cullum. It was also a bustling local with a busy public bar and a place for villages to enjoy a chat over a pint. When John bought the pub it had become a sad sight; the windows and doors were boarded up, the out-buildings full of rubbish, leaking pipes, damp floorboards and freezers full of rotten food.
John who also owns the White Horse in Edwardstone and Mill Green Brewery, and makes his own Cider has exciting plans for the pub. "With local pubs under threat from low cost Supermarket booze the pub needs to adapt" explained John shortly after getting his hands on the keys. "Not only do we want to create a pub that reflects it’s age and historic place in this beautiful medieval village, but we want it to support and cater for the needs of the local community." As renovation work goes on the search for period furniture from local auctions has been frantic. "We want the pub to feel classy but comfortable, using a mixture of appropriate furniture, making each room different, this will help us avoid the trap of becoming very monotone and boring". John believes that the pubs need to stop competing with the supermarkets. "We have a beautiful building here and our plans are to make the interior of the pub special. To complement this we want to sell produce produced locally as much as possible. Pubs are at the heart of our community but in so many cases the drinks they sell are imported and expensive, made buy multinationals with low production and high advertising costs. For a long time Supermarkets have been selling Lager brewed with the cheapest ingredients, Cider not made out of apples, tasteless spirits and Alco-pops at below cost price." John believes that pubs should not be trying to compete with them but should use local products that reflect the area they come from. ‘We make our own Beer with our own Suffolk Barley and Cider with Organic Suffolk apples. "We have Ale, Lager, Spirits and Wines all made in Suffolk and they are all great!"
John's other pub, the White Horse in Edwardstone, has won the Creating the Greenest Country Award for ‘Greenest Pub’. And Mill Green Brewery 'The Greenest Business Building' and 'Greenest Small Business'. Pubs can’t just be pubs any more, at the White Horse there are camping facilities, holiday accommodation, a wind turbine, solar panels and a brewery. The Fleece has a fantastic function room that needs to be used and a row of ancient stables not used since the last horse walked out in 1918, I'm sure with sensitivity they could be converted for a use which would benefit the local economy and help give the pub a secure future’.
